Tuesday, November 27, 2012

1. The rise of advocacy groups which by their very names
challenge the prevailing cultural order and prohibition-era stereotypes built
up over generations. Examples: Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP). Students
for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP)... Blueblood Yankees On Cannabis (they’d sooner
die).

2. Moms for Marijuana.Watch
out!When the moms of America finally wake up and see what cannabis really
is and what it can do for their family…Washington
is gonna get so nailed for lying, and the drug war will be grounded. Forever. Nuff
said.

3. Countries like Uruguay,
Portugal and Switzerland are
taking the lead on crafting modern drug-use strategies, and proving once again that
the freedom to choose works.

5. Mainstream Americans, still the most influential cultural group
in the world, are discovering the medicinal truth about cannabis in large
numbers by way of their ailments, and internet testimonials by brave patient
pioneers like Shona Banda and David Triplett.

6. Alcohol and pill abuse is rampant in our culture, and cannabis
is proving to be a useful exit drug for patients wrapped up in those costly,
toxic, and often tragic addictions. [Myth-busting research study by Amanda Reiman: http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/6/1/35]

7. Doctors, particularly in free states, have begun to assert their sacred
oath by insisting on treating patients in the privacy of their own practices—with
cannabis if that works.

8. Long-lasting, stealthy cannabis edibles and extracts are starting
to make the party scene; 420 revelers typically drink less and feel better in
the morning.Evidence: Drunken driving
fatalities decline in states that give their citizens the right to choose
cannabis [see Maia Szalavitz piece for Time Magazine: http://healthland.time.com/2011/12/02/why-medical-marijuana-laws-reduce-traffic-deaths/].

9. Cannabis festivals are all the rage: fun, safe, friendly, and
often held on private land, these vibrant transitory marketplaces expand the support
base, provide income for sellers of everything from goat soap to edibles, and serve
as a key meeting place for local and regional growers, patients, ganjapreneurs,
advocates and aficionados.

10. To the utter frustration of the prohibitionists in power, the
internet has fallen into the hands of the people.The convenient medicinal and economic truth
about cannabis is now appearing on screens large and small, all over the world.

Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia. Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention. A particular disclosed class of cannabinoids useful as neuroprotective antioxidants is formula (I) wherein the R group is independently selected from the group consisting of H, CH.sub.3, and COCH.sub.3. ##STR1##

Monday, November 19, 2012

Just in case you imagine that cannabis enterprise is all about dispensaries and grow equipment. Keep in mind that this summary does not include opportunities on the hemp front of this emerging enterprise frontier.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Cash Hyde. Pioneering cannabis patient who steeled the
resolve of medicinal rights advocates, and gave hope to patients online all
over the world. Dead at 4.

It was brain cancer. Radiation worked against the tumor, but it might have killed him if his father hadn’t
been able to sneak cannabis oil into his two-year-old’s feeding tube. Cannabis helped Cash pulled through once, but
the cancer returned. He died this week
in the arms of his brave, heartbroken parents.

A crowning example of the power of anti-pot propaganda is
that his doctors were okay with treatments that are deadly by design, like
chemo, but wouldn’t even discuss the
use of cannabis, a nontoxic medicinal flower that has never killed anyone. Ever.

The Feds treated the Hydes like criminals, and the state of
Montana shut down the dispensaries. Cash
was forced to go without his healing medicine while his parents scrambled to
find other ways to get it for him.

The
cruelty! The insanity! The healing power of cannabis. All revealed in the very brief life of this little
boy.

Wake up America! Cancer
research groups have been sitting on the good news since the
seventies, and in 2003 your own government filed a patent on the medicinal
effectiveness of the flower (#6,630,507, entitled Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants).

Look it up. It’s true. Ask Obama; he knows.

Cannabis is not rising in the polls and being legalized
outright because we’ve finally given into the demands of stoners. It’s not dope. It's medicine. For Cashy Hyde it was life-giving, and his story is all the President should need to make history and end
the war.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

We are trying to…make the thing sort of a sophisticated weekly get-together of people we dig and who dig us. Just have ourselves kind of a late-night ball…Hugh Hefner speaking with Lenny BrucePlayboy’s Penthouse, October 24, 1959

This reality
show will reflect the ‘honesty’ Lenny Bruce talked about with Mr. Hefner back in
1959; it’s actually a party.The message; Look smart, be well-informed, have
fun and act civilized.

The show will
be popular with college students and young professionals, since many guests
will be rising young artists, musicians and actors who see the party as a great
place to openly discuss their connection with cannabis.

Cannabis Sociables will attract
boomers and senior viewers who use cannabis in the shadows—and have fond
memories of The Tonight Show and Playboy After Dark (I was 12, sneaking
episodes while the house slept).

Just as Playboy After Hours attracted viewers
who didn’t necessarily use alcohol, Cannabis
Sociables will attract folks whose view of cannabis has been shaped by the
most successful and far-reaching propaganda campaign the world has ever devised.Americans will tune in for the vibe; beautiful
people and intelligent conversation, and along the way we’ll show them the true
nature of cannabis and the people who choose it.

Why now?Cannabis use is rising in
every demographic and support for full legalization grows with every election
cycle.Legalization is now inevitable, and
more viewers than ever are tuning into cannabis-theme shows.

AGGRESSIVE ATTITUDE: Some of us who have been ducking and dodging prohibition
for decades have had enough of the bullshit.Like many I use cannabis medicinally and it’s my creative and spiritual
muse.We harm no one, and yet in New
Hampshire, for example, they could still come for you; put you away.National advocacy groups are not taking the
case to the people.For them it’s all about
holding smoky festivals to expand the base, and crafting laws with people who
were elected to maintain the status quo.If the American people were shown the truth about cannabis; about how
people use it in the context of successful lives, this long and terrible war
would be over sooner than later.This is
the way to reach them…

HONEST ENTERTAINMENT:In the growing field
of cannabis programming, content is often defensive, fact-laden, noisy, crazed,
or just silly.That holds minimal appeal
for mainstream viewers.No appeal, no
interest, no education; so The Great Prohibition continues.Cannabis
Sociables is a reality show that can tear down the wall and attract Middle
Americans.When they tune in, they’ll
learn the truth about cannabis and the sorts of people who use the herb—by way
of upscale parties with celebrity guests, talented performers, and smart people
respectfully enjoying the finest green.

SMART TALK WITH CREATIVE, ARTICULATE GUESTS:Cannabis aficionados are often deep thinkers, and Carl will want to hear what they have to say on a wide
range of subjects and issues.Held in undisclosed,
classy settings in legal states (a mansion in Newport, a chalet in Telluride, a
San Francisco rooftop), these private gatherings will attract socialites,
models, fashion designers, musicians, writers, philosophers, visionaries,
teachers, artists, inventors, and entrepreneurs.Some
guests, like rising artists, will be looking for exposure; most will choose to
remain in the shadows…

COMING OUT IN DISGUISE:Guests not wishing
to reveal themselves at the party will be treated to a custom disguise by a
team of Hollywood make-up artists.Well-spoken,
successful closet stoners (doctors, lawyers, teachers, moms, dads, stiletto
stoners) will finally have the chance to express themselves about cannabis outside
of the legal and/or social framework that keeps them underground.These artsy semi-formals will be visually intoxicating;
beautiful guests in disguise mixing with established artists, entertainers and entrepreneurs
who no longer feel the need to hide.

EXCESS SELLS:This house party
concept is of course entirely self-serving and hedonistic in the same manner as
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous was
for Robin Leach.Cannabis Sociables will be classy, smart, interesting, and very
exclusive.Viewers will tune in for the
vibe, the people, the music, the strain reviews, and especially to see who
might drop by to talk cannabis connections with Carl.In the course of being entertained and
dazzled, Americans will receive cannabis truths by way of comments and
testimonials from successful, vibrant people they respect, admire, or at least
envy.

A CANNABIS TASTING:Cannabis Sociables will begin with a tantalizing look at the
evening’s featured strains.While the
expert (dispensary/seed company sponsors) describes the flavor, medicinal uses
and other characteristics, images of the bud and magnification shots are cut
with shots of masked guests listening to the presentation.Several perfectly cured strains will be
chosen to demonstrate how different the flowers can be from one another—in
appearance and in effect.A medicinal use
practitioner will be on hand to dispense the buds, answer questions, and
provide guidance.

CANNABIS ONLY:Alcohol will not be served
and tobacco use will not be shown.Great
food, fresh juice, coffee, tea, smoothies, ice cream, chocolates; a stoner’s
culinary paradise…

TRUTH AND MUSIC:Venues would feature
an area for musical exploration; a nice piano, maybe an artisan violin and some
beautiful guitars maybe on loan from Taylor Guitar.Carl will sit in on impromptu jams, which would
be encouraged between guest performances.

PRODUCTION: One camera would stay
with Carl while he greets guests and sparks conversation.At the same time, other videographers roam in
pursuit of musical moments and compelling discussions.The raw material from each sociable will be
cut to make two reality show segments.

SUMMIT GATHERINGS:Once or twice a
season Cannabis Sociables will travel
abroad to provide Americans with a look at more progressive countries like Portugal,
Spain, the Netherlands, and Argentina.Stoner celebs (on vacation or shooting on
location) will drop by to chat and sample the best of the local green.

Carl is not a
typical cannabis advocate, and he’s no stoner.He’s a boomer Yankee with conservative roots who grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts—Dexter
School boy, former skeet shooter and curler at The Country Club, MBA from
Babson College, co-founder of Boston Bagel, a wholesale business he ran in the
1990s.

A
few years ago Carl managed to take himself off of pharmaceuticals (for
headaches) using a potent cannabis tincture he still makes for himself and
legal patients.In 2009 he came out in
the Nashua Telegraph about it, and
ever since he has been working to find ways to deliver the truth to the world.

As a father of two teen girls—with one headed
for the film industry—Carl says it’s important to tell the truth to young
adults who finally have a chance to end this terrible war:

The new generation is not buying the crap anymore, but we
still need to fascinate them with the possibilities of freedom before they get
caught up in their jobs, money, and family and end up as closet stoners like
most of my generation has…

Carl
is the son and grandson of Harvard Medical School physicians.He was named after his mom’s grandfather;
Schyler Carl Wells, founder of S. C. Wells & Company, a well-known
turn-of-the-century ‘cures and remedies’ maker.Carl worked as a teaching case writer at the Blank Center for
Entrepreneurship at Babson College until 2008.